Apple Revs Up Ad Attacks on PCs, Vista

February 1, 2007 Apple Revs Up Ad Attacks on PCs, Vista (AP)

A display of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system software is shown at a Best Buy store in San Jose, Calif., just a few minutes after midnight on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007. Vista went on sale in 70 countries Tuesday, along with new versions of Microsoft Exchange e-mail software and the flagship Office business suite, which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

(AP) -- For nearly a year, television and Internet audiences have been seeing a familiar string of ads from Apple attacking rival Windows-based computers. With this week's release of Windows Vista, the newest jabs aren't any friendlier.

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